[SOLVED] echo html doesn't end where it should - extra text after ending quote

[miseleigh]

I'm sure this question has come up before, but it's hard to find answers.  I'm having trouble with my echo statement. 

<?php echo "<a title=\"UPS Systems\" href=\"/ups.html\" class=\"nav\">UPS Systems</a>"; ?>
   <a title="APC" href="/ups/dne.html" class="subnav">APC</a>

results in:

UPS Systems"; ?>  APC

 

where APC is a link like it's supposed to be, but 'UPS Systems' is plain text.  It's as if the ending bracket for the <a> tag isn't recognized, but I can't see how to fix it.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I've also tried the same statement using single quotes instead of escaped double quotes in the echo statement, and surrounded by single quotes with unescaped double quotes.  I also tried storing the html string in a variable and then echoing the variable; I've gotten the same results each time - any php code after 'UPS Systems' shows up as plain text.  Thoughts?

[pocobueno1388]

Are you sure you are working on a server that supports PHP?

[per1os]

Is the page you are working with a php extension. Because it seems like you are trying to use php in a .html file.

[miseleigh]

Well, it looks like the computer I'm working on doesn't support php, so previewing it in dreamweaver doesn't work.  Let me get it uploaded to the server and see if that does it.

 

and yes, it's a .php 

[per1os]

Yea, php needs a webserver or a program to interpret the command line version of the php file but you must have it installed. That is the crappy thing about dreamweaver, the previews are usually under false pretenses especially when coding.

[pocobueno1388]

XAMPP is a great program for PHP/mysql that you can run on your own server.

[miseleigh]

That was the problem - I just have to upload all my pages now before I can see what they're going to look like.

 

I would use XAMPP, but most of what I do is pure HTML, so dreamweaver's usually good for what I need.

 

Thanks for your help!